This land
Subtitle: an American portrait
By: Jack Spencer ; foreword by Jon Meacham
Contributors: Meacham, Jon, writer of supplementary textual content
Edition: First edition.
Series: The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere; William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781477311899
Subjects: Pictorial works; Landscape photography
Description: "This Land presents some one hundred and forty photographs that span the nation, from Key West to Death Valley and Texas to Montana. From the monochromatic and distressed black-and-white images that began the series to the oversaturated color of more recent years, these photographs present a startlingly fresh perspective on America. The breadth of imagery in This Land brings to mind the works of such American masters as Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Mark Rothko, and Albert Bierstadt, while also evoking the sense of the open roads traveled by Woody Guthrie and Jack Kerouac. Spencer's pictorialist vision embraces the sweeping variety of American landscapes--coasts, deltas, forests, deserts, mountain ranges, and prairies--and iconic places such as Mount Rushmore and Wounded Knee. Jon Meacham writes in the foreword that Spencer's "most surprising images are of a country that I suspect many of us believed had disappeared. The fading churches, the roaming bison, the running horses: Spencer has found a mythical world, except it is real, and it is now, and it is ours"--Publisher's website.